2. impute [ v ] attribute to a source or causeExamples:"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"

Used in print:

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

Whitehead is here questioning David_Hume 's understanding of the nature of experience ; he is questioning , also , every epistemology which stems from Hume 's presupposition that experience is merely sense_data in abstraction from causal efficacy , and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world , not directly perceived .